Ice is as solid as at any time in the winter.

March 13

P. M. —To Flint’s Pond. 

Much warmer at last. 

On Flint’s Pond I cut a hole and measured the ice twenty-two rods from the shore nearest to Walden, where the water was nine feet deep (measuring from its surface in the hole). The ice was twenty-six inches thick, thirteen and one half of it being snow ice, and the ice rose above the water two inches. 

March 13, 2022

March 13, 2025

March 13, 2026

This ice is as solid as at any time in the winter. Three inches of snow above. 

It was so much work to cut this hole with a dull axe that I did not try any other place where it may have been thicker. Perhaps it was thicker in the middle, as in ’47.

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, March 13, 1856

  

Much warmer at last. See March 14, 1857 ("A warmer day at last.")

On Flint’s Pond  . . .  ice is as solid as at any time in the winter.  See March 15, 1860 (" I hear that there was about one acre of ice . . . Flint's Pond on the 13th. It will probably, then, open entirely to-day."); March 19, 1854 ("Flint's Pond almost entirely open."); April 1, 1852 ("I am surprised to find Flint's Pond frozen still, which should have been open a week ago.") See also A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau, Ice-Out

March 13. See A Book of the Seasons, by Henry Thoreau, March 13

The ice on Flint’s Pond 

as solid as at any 

time in the winter. 

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau,  Ice is as solid as at any time in the winter

A Book of the Seasons,  by Henry Thoreau

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out-of-doors, in its own locality."

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